Insect loss all over the world.

• ‘Hyperalarming’ study shows massive insect loss! By Ben Guarino from The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/10/15/hyperalarming-study-shows-massive-insect-loss
• Climate-driven declines in arthropod abundance restructure a rainforest food web http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/10/09/1722477115
• Musc and Sound effects by Epic Stock Media http://epicstockmedia.com
• Teaser image https://pixabay.com/en/hummel-bombus-eye-insect-bee-1353423
• Narrator Cormac Bren https://www.fiverr.com/cormacbren

Further reading

• Professor Timothy Schowalter – Bugs are Friends: Taking an Ecosystem View on Forest Health https://www.scientia.global/professor-timothy-schowalter-bugs-friends-taking-ecosystem-view-forest-health
• Pollinator decline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollinator_decline
• ‘A different dimension of loss’: inside the great insect die-off https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/14/a-different-dimension-of-loss-great-insect-die-off-sixth-extinction
• The disappearance of common species https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180201085800.htm
• Where have all the insects gone? http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/where-have-all-insects-gone
• Researchers Warn Massive Insect Die-off Is Harbinger Of “Ecological Armageddon” https://www.mintpressnews.com/researchers-warn-massive-insect-die-off-is-harbinger-of-ecological-armageddon/233571/
• More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185809
• Video: Sting of Climate Change – By comparing bee data to satellite imagery, NASA research scientist Wayne Esaias uses honey bees as tiny data collectors to understand how climate change is affecting pollination and plants. https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/41/video-sting-of-climate-change/